Calytrix divergens

Calytrix divergens is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a mostly glabrous shrub with egg-shaped, lance-shaped or oblong leaves, and yellow flowers with about 40 to 80 stamens in several rows.

Description

Calytrix divergens is a mostly glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are egg-shaped, lance-shaped or oblong, long, wide and sessile or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are borne on a peduncle long. The floral tube is long, has 5 ribs. The sepals are joined for a short distance at the base, the lobes egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with an awn up to long. The petals are yellow and elliptic, long and wide. There are about 40 to 80 yellow stamens long. Flowering occurs from
August to October.

Taxonomy

Calytrix divergens was first formally described in 1987 by Lyndley Craven in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected south-east of Mileura in 1957. The specific epithet means 'differing from', possibly referring to the leaves.

Distribution and habitat

This species of Calytrix grows on breakaways and escarpments in the upper Murchison River district and south-eastwards to near Paynes Find where it grows on sandy soils over laterite, quartzite or granite in the Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of inland Western Australia.